FEMA auctioning off trailers at fire-sale prices

[Contrary1]

Guess that means all the victims of Katrina have found homes. :eyes:
Bend over mobile home dealers, your government is about to show you some love.

"LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A year and a half after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, FEMA is auctioning off at fire-sale prices thousands of trailers used by storm victims, raising fears among mobile-home dealers that the government will flood the market and depress prices.

Mobile home dealers are finding that some potential customers would rather wait to make a deal on a used FEMA trailer than drop $25,000 to $40,000 for a brand-new one.

"People think they're just going to get to buy them for nothing," said Gale Crews, owner of Diamond State Mobile Home Sales in Hope, where FEMA is storing 20,000 trailers at the city's airport. Some of the FEMA trailers will sell for less than half of what they cost new.

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FEMA spent $2.7 billion to buy 145,000 mobile homes and trailers after Katrina and Rita hit the Gulf Coast in August and September 2005, paying a bulk-rate price of about $19,000 per trailer, on average. FEMA now has 60,000 trailers in storage nationwide; several thousand of them — exactly how many is not clear — were never used..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17509045/

[question everything]

1. This, too, needs Congressional hearing

I really think that discussing many of the domestic issues will talk to the voters more than impeachment proceedings.

[rkc3]

2. An enterprising Bush supporter could grab thousands of these

at cut rate prices and flip them on the market for a pretty good profit I suppose.

[asjr]

3. That is $2.7 billion of our money. I am

not ready to have a garage sale.

[BOSSHOG]

4. Flimsy Death Traps for Sale, slightly used. Make offer

[ThomCat]

8. Poorly made, toxic fume infested boxes that can't pass

any kind of habitibility inspection available cheap.
x(

[liberal N proud]

5. Buy one - take a trip with it to the White House

Maybe you can get a photo-op with the bu$h as a Katrina success story, then expose it for the false story it is.

[Porcupine]

6. They might need those this summer.

We aren't likely to get as lucky as we were in 2006. This next hurricane season is likely to be rough. By next August somebody's going to need a trailer. Count on it.

[enid602]

7. LA

Line 'em up on the banks of the LA River; there are an estimated 100,000 homeless people in Los Angeles County. Probably a similar number in New York, as well.

[question everything]

9. Contact Feinstein and Boxer

perhaps they can intervene

[BOSSHOG]

10. I'd be very leery about

the safety of these damn things. I see them every day. They are very flimsy and just thrown together. If they were to be used as you suggest I'd ensure that there was no electricity hooked up.